A MAN is due to appear in court today charged with growing cannabis, after 700 plants were seized.

The plants, together with hydroponics equipment, used for growing the plants, were seized from a building off Hemnall Street, Epping, at 10am yesterday morning.

Hoai Tran, 31, of no fixed address, has been charged with producing a class B drug and is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court later today.